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New compression technique (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Saves input tokens and uses more output because of OCR, and output is priced way higher.

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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

It's an accounting trick. It uses a different budget....

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 months ago*

Also if you're doing anything multi-prompt, that output is re-used as (luckily cached) input tokens for the next prompt anyway lol

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